Carla Bergman & Nick Montgomery 
Joyful Militancy [EPUB ebook] 
Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times

Introduction

— Intro to intro

— Questions

— Affirmative theory

— Joy and the Spinozan current

— Joyful militancy and emergent powers

— Beyond optimism and pessimism

— On anarchism

— The beginning of a conversation

— Structure of the book

Chapter 1: Empire, Militancy and Joy

— Resistance and joy are everywhere

— Sadness and subjection

— Joy is not happiness

— The power of joy

— Militant about joy

— Starting from where people find themselves

Chapter 2: Friendship, freedom, ethics

— Introduction

— Friendship is the root of freedom

— From morality to ethics

— What can friendship do?

— Solidarity begins at home

— The ethics of affinity in anarchism

— Connecting Spinozan current to Indigenous resurgence

— Friendship and freedom have sharp edges

— The active shaping of our worlds together

Chapter 3: Trust and Responsibility as Common Notions

— Trust and responsibility as common notions

— (Mis)trust and (ir)responsibility under Empire

— Empire’s radical monopoly over life

— Towards conviviality

— Emergent trust and responsibility: three examples

— Indigenous struggles

— Anti-violence and transformative justice

— Deschooling and youth liberation

— The power of baseline trust

— Infinite trust and responsibilities?

— Holding common notions gently

Chapter 4: Rigid Radicalism

— Introduction

— It’s those people

— The paradigm of government

— Decline and counterrevolution

— The perils of comparing

— Having good politics

Chapter 5: Sources of Rigid Radicalism, Sources of Joy

— Introduction

— Ideology

— Ideology in Leninism

— Ideology in anarchism

— Critique of ideology as such

— Undoing ideology

— Morality, fear, and ethical attunement

— Christian origins of morality

— Morality in movements

— Warding off morality with common notions

— You’re so paranoid, you probably think this section is about you

— Lack-finding, perfectionism, schooling, walking

— Radical perfectionism and paranoid reading

— Holding ambivalence

— The limits of critique: from paranoia to potential

— Towards new encounters

Outro

— Rigid radicalism can be hard to talk about

— Three modes of attunement

Appendix 1: Feeling Powers Growing Within Yourself: An Interview with Silvia Federici

Appendix 2: Breaking down the walls around each other: the transformative power of trust – An Interview with Kelsey Cham Corbett

Glossary of Terms

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Carla Bergman: Carla Bergman has worked with youth in alternatives-to-education projects for over fifteen years. She co-directed the film: Common Notions: Handbook Not Required and co-edited the Stay Solid: A Radical Handbook For Youth.
Nick Montgomery: Nick Montgomery is an organizer and writer currently finishing a Ph D in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. His work focuses on alternatives to the capitalism, gender violence, settler colonialism, and ecological degradation.
Hari Alluri: Hari Alluri, an award-winning poet, educator, and teaching artist, is the author of Carving Ashes (2013), The Promise of Rust (2016), and The Flayed City (2017)